Check out Grant’s channel: 3blue1brown: https://www.youtube.com/3blue1brown This video recounts a lecture by Richard Feynman giving an elementary demonstration of why planets orbit in ellipses. See the excellent book by Judith and David Goodstein, “Feynman’s lost lecture”, for the full story behind this lecture, and a deeper dive into its content. Tweet referenced at the start: https://twitter.com/3blue1brown/statu… Music by Nathaniel Schroeder: https://soundcloud.com/drschroeder/el… Music by Vincent Rubinetti: https://soundcloud.com/vincerubinetti… Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Link to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/ MinutePhysics is on twitter – @minutephysics And facebook – http://facebook.com/minutephysics And Google+ (does anyone use this any more?) – http://bit.ly/qzEwc6